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IRELAND DREW THEIR Euro 2016 opener against Sweden in Paris this evening.
All the fans in the stadium were in full voice – as you would expect – but one stood out more than others.
Fool of Soccer / TwitterAn Irish fan dressed in a full Leprechaun outfit in the middle of a sea of Sweden fans. pic.twitter.com/sMNaDWUnG9
— Fool of Soccer (@foolofsoccer) June 13, 2016
James Dodd / TwitterAway to our left in the sea of Yellow #SWE shirts stands a lone man dressed in full Leprechaun outfit. Brilliant
— James Dodd (@JamesDodd89) June 13, 2016
Some set of fans we have.
Written by David Elkin and posted on DailyEdge.ie
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Would love footage of him after Ireland scored
I think ye should show the image again
Missed the feckin thing 4 times…. Imagine that
No story about the Irish fans singing “Stand up for the Ulstermen” at the 24th minute in honour Darren Rodgers the man from Ballymena that died from a fall?
The Irish soccer fans are our greatest ambassadors. They are doing the country proud.
They are legends anyway but if that’s true my god what great ambassadors for the country
It’s true alright and it’s definitely no exaggeration to say they are the best fans in the world.
@les cheers pal read the article and seen the video there a class act our boys and girls
@Peter I have being told it was Gerry Adams
Apparantly the Swedish fans had to put their seats together from the boxes….
We must find this leprechaun man and make him King!
@ VAL.#, sorry peter I have being told it was Gerry Adams
How do we know it’s not a Swedish fan on some kind of dare?
Hey Mick, it Patrick, I got ya a ticket for the Euros! Your a legend thanks tonight, Patrick you git
Ah tweety come on..we all know us Irish have to do a dare. He’s havin the craic and all the other teams seem to like us. Isnt that a good thing?
Because one section of the stand has Irish people and the other but if the stand has a huge potential to hold hot blonde Swedish girls , of course there’s going to be an Irish guy with his tinder range set to 30m
If I was a swedish lass of course I’d be lookin for an Irish lepraucaun
Only the Irish…
Also only possible to get away with that with the nice cool Swedes.
Imagine trying that against Russia!
Class,who is he. Has to be named.
It’s Darbey, Darbey o Gill
Ah sure begorrah and bejeepers sure aren’t we only great craic alltogether, sure they all think we are mad.
G’wan dat oirish lad..
Found his pot of gold
Class
Betcha he had great crack.
I was so proud of the Irish fans,,,they did our country proud.
As did the team.
I bet he is a ginger and looking for love.
Ah but is it flat pack love and a bit of DIY?
Can’t see him.
This man is amazing!
Barry Hanson the legend
He’s the green one in the photo, with the big red circle around him! 2 for the price of 1 in speck savers…..:-)
Could they not have zoomed in a bit.
ha, wat a header
It’s was Enda ! ” right so lads lets go ” ” we’re playing in yellow tonight then ”
” come on ye boys in yellow”
He had a swede for lunch at half time. Yum!!!
omg that is the maddest thing I have ever seen or will ever see in my life and I hav seen fkn mad things….that is mad its so crazy…oh gosh…..wait till I share this…oh lord…..I hope iireland win as we are all lovely people…..
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